All Questions
Tagged with suggested-edits discussion
45 questions
4
votes
1
answer
45
views
What's wrong with my edit?
I applied for this edit a few weeks ago.
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/1148560
It was unanimously rejected by the reviewers. I'm not sure what I did wrong here - it seems to me that ...
- 441
7
votes
1
answer
127
views
Why was my edit rejected if it improves the question's readability?
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/1272732
The edit split up the wall of text, which usually deters answerers from even reading the post. The Markdown text was paragraphed and indented, ...
- 1,766
9
votes
1
answer
126
views
Requesting clarity on edits that update redirecting URLs
I frequently edit posts that include redirecting microsoft.com URLs. My reasoning is generally that a redirecting link today may be a broken link tomorrow, so as long as the redirect has preserved the ...
- 410
4
votes
3
answers
118
views
Edit that updates obsolete command-line parameters gets rejected?
Yesterday I came across this Chocolatey answer, but, surprisingly, the proposed command-line didn’t work. I then noticed several comments mentioning that the mentioned command-line parameter was ...
- 450
3
votes
1
answer
55
views
Not clear suggested edit reviewers correctly read rejected edit suggestion
In this rejected edit suggestion, I attempted make the paragraph description match the command solution, but the edit was rejected as being intended to reply to the author.
Can someone take please a ...
- 786
6
votes
0
answers
153
views
No screenshots after asking for it, added them myself, dropping the comment. Edit rejected: "This edit ... should have been written as a comment ...."
Edit rejected:
This edit was intended to address the author of the post and makes no sense as an edit. It should have been written as a comment or an answer.
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-...
- 2,531
15
votes
0
answers
125
views
Rejection of suggested edit that fixes multiple issues
I suggested this edit that was rejected with the reason it didn't improve the quality of the post.
The suggested edit improved 3 problems with the post following consensus about editing guidelines:
...
- 635
8
votes
3
answers
147
views
When should additional information be an edit vs a comment vs a separate answer?
Should links and excerpts from relevant documentation be an edit or should they be a comment or should they be an separate answer?
Sometimes I find a helpful answer with a great example of the use of ...
- 907
2
votes
1
answer
129
views
Please offer guidance as to why this edit was rejected
My purpose in asking this is to better understand what is wrong so I don't repeat the mistake.
I came across the following question, in which the author crafted an extremely complex, in-depth ...
- 8,610
26
votes
3
answers
697
views
Why did my edit that fixed several spelling errors get rejected as superfluous?
Here is the edit in question. It was rejected for the reason
This edit does not make the post even a little bit easier to read, easier to find, more accurate or more accessible. Changes are either ...
- 1,118
-3
votes
1
answer
75
views
Should old opinion-based questions be significantly edited?
This question What display size and resolution is good for reading PDF in double page view? is closed as primarily opinion-based. I attempt to edit it like this, but it says I'm editing too much. What ...
- 2,149
1
vote
2
answers
123
views
Useful tag edits rejected
As part of retagging mikrotik away from the Manufacturer Meta-Tag to each individual product (mikrotik-routeros and mikrotik-swos), I've added relevant tags to questions that mentioned Mikrotik but ...
- 1,747
-4
votes
1
answer
85
views
Why was my edit, correcting a fact, rejected?
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/756623 refers to 'Accent colors', but this ought be 'Theme colors'.
user269574
-8
votes
2
answers
124
views
Why were my 2 edits suggesting formatting changes to numbering rejected?
Please see https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/756634 and https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/756633. Adding numbering helped clarify the multitude of solutions.
user269574
11
votes
1
answer
271
views
How is my edit not considered an improvement?
Consider:
https://superuser.com/review/suggested-edits/728281
I made an edit to this question, which I personally considered to be a huge improvement in readability, but to my surprise it not only ...
- 5,444
18
votes
2
answers
442
views
Should I perform a duck test when reviewing suggested edits?
Duck test:
If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.
In this case:
If it behaves like the Original Poster, then it probably is the Original ...
- 78.9k
1
vote
1
answer
81
views
Is handlebar a technical term that I am unaware of?
Please excuse my poor attempt at humour in the title, but should this suggested edit have been rejected?
I see two three issues with this post:
The term MacOS should be used with versions 7.5.1 ...
- 2,382
2
votes
2
answers
124
views
What is wrong with me?
I am a relatively new user to Super User, but quite experienced in the SE network of sites (about 95K on SO, 70K on MSE). I guess I know quite some of you from either of those sites.
I add great ...
- 594
25
votes
4
answers
552
views
Should users suggest technical edits?
Recently, I received this answer and a comment asking me to run a particular command to get the precise Last Modified timestamp of a file:
wmic datafile where name="c:\\foo.txt" get lastmodified
...
- 1,892
6
votes
3
answers
135
views
What should I do with suggested edits to the wiki of bad tags?
An edit for the abandonware tag wiki came up in the review queue, and it's a fine edit, but the tag's existence is bad. It's clearly a meta tag (i.e. it does nothing to describe a question on its own; ...
- 41.7k
2
votes
1
answer
59
views
Are edits from anonymous users worth the trouble?
I've only been reviewing suggested edits for a bit over a month, but in that time, I have never once seen an acceptable edit from an anonymous user. I have had to reject all anonymous edits (almost ...
- 41.7k
12
votes
2
answers
138
views
Should I approve edits that only add related links?
This suggested edit (on a highly-upvoted question) came up in the review queue. It linkifies the words "GNU Screen" and "tmux", pointing them to the respective sites. The question was already useful ...
- 41.7k
8
votes
3
answers
197
views
Edit to correct a basic path syntax error in an answer rejected - why?
I found an answer that was helpful but had a syntax error in the path. I made the correction (so that the answer as-written would at least be accurate in this regard) and it got rejected apparently ...
- 133
1
vote
1
answer
40
views
Are edits for just filling in image descriptions accepted?
I'm a somewhat new user on this site and I was wondering, I've come across many posts that have an image within them but with no image description or it still includes the default message of, "enter ...
- 536
10
votes
3
answers
280
views
Managing user who edit only tags of several questions
In the recent few days I've reviewed dozens of tag edit proposals made by a single user.
Some of his edits really improves the quality of the question. Although majority of them, despite adding ...
- 21.9k
1
vote
3
answers
66
views
Question closed and Edit suggestion rejected
Can someone explain why this question was closed? To my opinion it was a clear question. However, since it was closed as unclear what you're asking I explained it with an example and the edit was ...
- 466
15
votes
2
answers
276
views
Is a suggested edit that completely rewrites an answer appropriate?
I asked a question a few months ago that was answered very succinctly. I thought the answer fit perfectly; it had the exact amount of information that someone with the same problem would need to ...
- 2,555
0
votes
1
answer
44
views
Approve this question edit by another user?
I came across this edit in the suggested edit review queue. Original was from user utsav, edit from user3782114. Strange.
It could be someone mistakingly using a new account (in which case I'd ...
- 4,289
11
votes
1
answer
121
views
Can tag wiki edit review be adjusted to make plagiarism easier to catch?
In the Suggested Edits queue, plagiarism is a rejection reason unique to tag wiki edits. Plagiarized edits can be caught by googling the tag wiki text or by googling the product and examining the most ...
- 12.8k
10
votes
1
answer
267
views
Should somewhat trivial edits be rejected if there are a lot of them coming from the same user?
If you look at my activity page, you can see a lot of the edits I have reviewed. All but three (of the 20) are by the same user. Over the past few days (probably up to about a week or so now) I've ...
- 9,359
14
votes
6
answers
307
views
Should there be a limit to the % change to an original post by anonymous edits?
Although I think there have been many good contributions by anonymous users, would it make sense that a near 100% change not be allowed?
We have the review process, but it just seems that it ...
- 6,650
13
votes
2
answers
151
views
Suggested edits - adding additional solutions
I have recently been able to start reviewing suggested edits for posts. Most are not an issue to process.
One type I have come to simply skipping at this point is an edit which seeks to add ...
- 4,314
-3
votes
2
answers
58
views
How should I try to improve a question that the user doesn't like my edits for?
Often, when I edit questions, it is because they need editing to be uncrap.
After putting some time into making the following question uncrap, one person approved the edit, but the user rejected it ...
- 1,949
9
votes
1
answer
378
views
Is it typical for an edit to be hijacked and then attributed to someone else?
https://superuser.com/posts/663103/revisions Edit #3 (as of currently) is the edit I proposed, but the edit was not credited to me, but to someone else.
I don't mind horribly, because it was only 2 ...
- 1,949
1
vote
1
answer
56
views
Is approving a edit for 2k users a bug or feature?
A low rep user edited a question I was looking at, I thought the changes he made where good and I clicked to approve it. Now it is sitting waiting for a approval of a 2nd user.
If I had clicked "...
- 31.1k
2
votes
0
answers
57
views
Why do Suggested Edit Review audits often use the same user? [duplicate]
Whenever I get a Suggested Edit Review test, the proposed edit appears to always come from the same user account. The account belongs to a legitimate, albeit new, user.
This brings up a couple of ...
- 12.7k
9
votes
2
answers
347
views
Why were my suggested edits rejected?
I have recently tried to engage a high rep superuser user in an attempt to clarify some shortcomings in his/her answer. After there was no attempt to make the answer complete by adding the information ...
- 2,868
-5
votes
1
answer
155
views
Unregistered Users Should Not Be Able to Suggest Edits
It bugs me when unregistered users edit my Answers. It's not that big a deal to undo their edits (Moderators always seem to approve them almost immediately), but when they make really bad edits (and ...
- 2,834
2
votes
1
answer
53
views
Suggested Edit - Reject Reason
As per this meta discussion I asked about, I had to reject more because the edits still don't make the question on topic. Since this is the most popular reason that I am rejecting edits, can we change ...
- 24.5k
4
votes
2
answers
113
views
Reviewing Suggested Edits when question should be flagged
When reviewing suggested edits, I saw a question that I would have considered NARQ. The edit made to it made sense, mostly grammar and "politeness" we changed, but the question was still NARQ. Do I ...
- 24.5k
3
votes
1
answer
57
views
Suggested tag wiki edit mostly fine, but with a portion that is bad/wrong
So I happened upon this suggested tag wiki edit (link to the revision)
PostgreSQL is the open source database started at UCB back in 1986 as Postgres project and evolved into one of the most powerful ...
- 24.5k
4
votes
1
answer
49
views
Is the question's last activity relevant for editing, or accepting suggested edits?
Is the last activity date of a topic relevant in deciding whether a given change makes the relevance threshold when editing, or deciding on a suggested edit?
Are smaller, less important edits fine ...
Daniel BeckMod
- 111k
2
votes
3
answers
371
views
Make reviewers explain why they accept a suggested edit
A few times already I've seen users in chat complain about the willingness of reviewers to approve very minor edits whose usefulness is questionable. Sometimes the edits were even counterproductive, ...
Daniel BeckMod
- 111k
7
votes
2
answers
148
views
Large number of small edits during birthday celebration
Has anybody else noticed a significant jump in the number of small or insignificant edits occuring since the kick-off of the birthday festivities?
I'm personally rolling back those that are truly ...
- 44.8k
5
votes
1
answer
70
views
Tag wikis accepted, but excerpts rejected
I thought I could help by suggesting a few new tag wikis. Most were accepted, but in 3 of them, the tag wiki body was accepted but the excerpt was rejected, leaving them with no summary.
The edits ...
- 7,903